Talk:Roland Griffiths

Birthdate and age
The birth date and age of the subject are available online due to the government selling records to third party websites. However, I don’t think these sites themselves are reliable to cite. Viriditas (talk) 00:43, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Birth date sourced to A Livingston Genealogical Register. He is a Livingston on his mother’s side. Viriditas (talk) 02:02, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * His parents are “Sylvie Livingston Redmond, a writer who married William Griffiths Jr. in December 1940”, as listed on his grandfather’s page, Roland L. Redmond. Viriditas (talk) 02:11, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Middle name
Sourced to his dissertation published by Dissertation Abstracts International. Viriditas (talk) 01:45, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

To do

 * Identifies as psychopharmacologist
 * Chapter 5. Carpenter, Murray (2014). Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us. Penguin. ISBN 9780698148505.

Current research:
 * Microdosing
 * Creativity

Since his terminal diagnosis
The NYT has an interview with him, and further coverage may appear in NYT and other media.-- Quisqualis (talk) 19:17, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * NYT Magazine interview. Viriditas (talk) 19:48, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

"Media ruckus"

 * Griffiths was known for his 2006 paper "Psilocybin Can Occasion Mystical-Type Experiences Having Substantial and Sustained Personal Meaning and Spiritual Significance", which The New York Times said "caused a media ruckus"..."

This is completely unnecessary and sensationalistic, and is an example of poor reportage intending to draw interest, clicks, and whatever attention they were looking for. Griffiths is probably the least controversial psychedelic researcher in the entire history of the discipline. By 2006, when the aforementioned paper was published, the notion that psychedelics, taken in controlled, clinical settings, could elicit personal so-called mystical, meaningful, and significant experiences, had been well known for almost sixty years in the literature. The very idea that this caused a media ruckus is not just absurd, it is ridiculous. I suggest removing this tidbit. Viriditas (talk) 21:41, 17 October 2023 (UTC)